It is easy to think golfers who find success at an early age have been around longer than reality. And that those players are older than their birth certificate actually states.
When you throw in some of the highly publicised highs and lows of Jordan Zunic’s career to date, this feeling is exacerbated, despite the New South Welshman only recently entering his 30s.
Hailing from the Illawarra region south of Sydney, Zunic has three PGA Tour of Australasia wins to his name, including the 2015 New Zealand Open, and was almost an Australian PGA champion in 2017. Yet in the game of golf, he has more than half his professional career ahead of him.
It was, however, a career that almost wasn’t after an horrific car accident in August 2013.
Zunic was in Arkansas preparing to play the US. Amateur the following week when a car he was a passenger in with fellow Aussie players was T-boned by another vehicle, sending Zunic’s head into a pole on impact.
The damage was extensive. The impact severed a temporal artery above Zunic’s ear and caused massive loss of blood and requiring plastic surgery to the ear itself. But a tough and gritty competitor
